(Lilo: I have an account on deviant art!!!!! I am soo proud of myself! ^___^ the link: ht tp://lillo.d eviantart.c om/ (take out the spaces) *holds up her pencil and her wacom pen proudly* lol! Oh … and the thought of making Shadii a teacher never even crossed my mind … I mean, Shadii appeared in Sauro's office and Dumbledore didn't recognize him … I mean, why the hell is Moody in Hogwarts then? … I was hoping that it was obvious who the DAA teacher was….
Marikue: *sweat drops* she is annoying today …. And she still doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Harry Potter!)
Chapter 22
Devil inside an Angel
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Harry woke up, feeling something sharp poking him at the side. He, for one, did not like waking up in such a manner and two, his side hurt.
"Fufff off" was all that Marik heard from the motionless body that he was poking for nearly an hour now.
"Wasn't he the one yelling that we had to get up early?" Yami cocked his head to the side and blinked. The classes were to start in five minutes and Harry was still sleeping as if dead. They had tried everything, screaming, poking, kicking, splashing him with cold water but nothing could awaken the young wizard who seemed to have an eternal sleep.
"We'll be late" Bakura pointed out stretching his arms, his new leather uniform glittering in sunlight. It was then that Hermione walked in, looked at them all, looked at Harry and slapped her forehead. Moving swiftly, she came up to him, practically pushed Marik out of the way, kneeled down and whispered something into Harry's ear so that the others couldn't hear. The effect was … not what the boys had expected. Harry, the sleeping dead, gave the utmost girlish shriek and was sitting straight in bed in an instant, eyes wide and breathing as if he just ran a 3 km race. Hermione was laughing on the floor, unable to do anything else. Yami, Bakura and Marik blinked.
"Pure evil!" Harry exclaimed, glaring at Hermione with all his might, having caught his breath.
"I think we are missing something here…?" Yami raised his eyebrow. Why haven't they thought of calling Hermione? She had a very good way of waking poor sleeping boy up.
"Don't ask" Harry grumbled as Hermione continued to giggle uncontrollably.
"Ook" Marik shrugged and fingered his rod. It was getting surprisingly warm … too warm for his tastes.
"Like our new uniforms?" Bakura asked as Harry gaped at him openly. Of course, the kid probably never saw teenager wearing tight black leather with many silver chains as well as knifes strapped to legs and arms. Yami and Marik were almost the same but they didn't have as many knifes as Bakura. No, Bakura would definitely sink during a shipwreck … nah, Harry wondered how can one walk with so much metal on them.
"That reminds me" Hermione butted in as she looked Yami up and down, "What did you do?"
"A spell" Marik was smiling from ear to ear. Yami was a genius ... both he and Bakura had to admit that when Yami suggested to perform the spell in the morning.
"Yes, I guessed that part" Hermione tapped her foot impatiently, completely forgetting that they were late for class.
"Then why do you ask?" Bakura cocked his head to the side.
"Because I want to know the incantation for something" Hermione crossed her arms over her chest.
"Perhaps you want the same outfit" Bakura suggested, winking at her. Hermione turned bright red but not from embarrassment… from anger…
"I wouldn't mind" Harry broke their glaring match.
"Sure, consult Yami The Maid" Marik sniggered as Yami shot him a glare.
"Say that again and I will personally castrate you, making you a real maiden" Yami shot back and while Marik was thinking of a comeback, Bakura was on the floor, literally laughing his ass off.
"You know, he is right" Bakura manage to say from the floor. Marik's reaction was quick and in mere seconds, the grave-keeper was trying to suffocate a still laughing tomb robber.
"There they go again" Hermione sweat-dropped as the boys continued to fight. "Is that an empty bed?" she suddenly asked, noticing that the fifth bed was unoccupied.
"Ya… I don't think anybody wants to occupy it since … since I am here" Harry explained to her as she looked at him with sad eyes. "And I don't need your pity because this is better … no need to explain why they are fighting …" Harry looked at Yami pleadingly. "So, can I have my robes turned into leather as well?"
"Sure" Yami said and was about to raise his wand when Hermione suddenly emitted the most terrifying and ear-splitting shriek a girl could ever produce.
"What is it?" Marik and Bakura asked at the same time, forgetting all about their fight.
"We are 10 minutes late for our first class!" her eyes were wide. Not only did they miss breakfast and timetables, they have already wasted 10, no, 11 minutes of their first class!
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Out of breath, tired, bloody and laughing insanely. That is exactly how Mood saw five teenagers practically fly into his classroom. Falling on top of each other, they came to a halt and all looked at him with pleading eyes. Hermione was the first one to recoil.
"Professor, we are so sorry! We missed breakfast and therefore missed timetables and we had to go and find Professor McGonagall but she wasn't in her office so…" Hermione took a deep breath and continued "…so we went to find the headmaster but we couldn't so we went to the dungeon to ask Professor Snape because his classroom was very close and he assaulted us with some kind of potion and then we went back up and we met Professor McGonagall…" another deep breath "and she gave us the timetables and we came here as quickly as we could! This will never happen again, Sir! We will always…" she was whizzing now "...be on time, Sir!" she managed to squeak out before gasping for air. Moody blinked as everything that she said slowly sunk in.
"Jeeze, you talk fast" Bakura said as he got off the floor, his shiny black leather stained with a little bit of blood. What Hermione didn't tell the teacher was that they also ran into Malfoy and Bakura and the blond started a fight, which resulted in blood being shredded on both sides. Yami was hurt the most, since he was trying to break them up.
"Why are you not wearing your uniforms?" Moody cocked his head to the side, looking at the boys dressed in leather thoughtfully. The Gryffindor and Hufflepuff were quiet the entire time, most being afraid to move while some were helping Neville because he fainted at the sight of red crimson blood streaking down Yami's face. All in all, it was very quiet.
"We are wearing uniforms." Marik said with a cocky smirk "Just in a slightly different style from other gits that don't have a brain of their own" Bakura sneered as Moody's eyes widened.
"Such a language is unacceptable!" Moody boomed. "10 points for Gryffindor!" it would've been dramatic if not for Harry, who yawn widely at the very moment and rubbed his eyes with his sleeve. "Another 10!" Moody was furious. Hermione was about to die right there and then.
"Problem" Harry smiled manically. "This is the first day of school, there are no house points. You can't take any". Even though Moody was furious, he couldn't hide the truth.
"Sit down so that I don't have to look at you all" Moody snarled and pointed at the back table in the darkest corner of the room. The DAA classroom looked gloomier now, so empty and half-lit.
"Whatever you say" Yami shrugged and they all moved gracefully to sit at the appointed table while the girls silently 'oohed" and 'ahhed' at the boys while Hermione was trying hard not to cry. This was her first time being yelled at by a teacher! … what she didn't know was that this wasn't going to be her last. When they all finally sat down, Moody continued the lesson that they interrupted in the first place.
"As I was saying, we are going to practice unforgivable curses at the end of this term since it is essential for you to know them as well as being able to actually use them in real life. Our world is at war so the Ministry is allowing such practice in schools." Moody paused to look around the classroom. Most faces were puzzled, while others were eager … and a small portion of the class kept on throwing glances in the direction of Harry, Yami, Bakura, Marik and Hermione, fear in their eyes.
"Why can't we start now?" Bakura asked out of blue.
"You, for one, don't have enough experience …" Moody trailed off as he remembered how they sunk back through the roof back on the train. He only saw that, but Moody was sure that there was also a monster somewhere on the train because what else could cause such a jolt? " …Correction, your classmates don't have enough experience" Moody glared at the five students as if by glaring he could solve everything. What he didn't know was that Bakura and Marik didn't like to be glared at and they doubled their forces to glare at Moody. If looks could kill, Moody would've already been a small pile of ash.
"That's right" Yami with a low, mysterious voice and that sent another round of 'ahhs' from the girls. The female population of Hogwarts wasn't fazed by the fact that they three new boys were with The Harry Potter and every, or almost every girl in the glass was already battering their eyelashes and making winking at the teens. The only exception was Hermione, who just kept on shaking her head as she read a small note that Harry wrote to her:
You will soon become popular,
Because you are with us …
That just frustrated her, making her think once again about how stupid some could be and list everybody who was stupid in this world. Harry was on top of that list. Why was it always like that with him? One year, the entire school was terrorized by him and then next year it was as if he was some mysterious god that everybody wanted to understand and worst of all, become like him. Being an idol sometimes got to Harry's head…
"Same as in Domino" Yami sighed and put his head in his hands as he blankly stared at the professor who was moving around the room, not realized that most heads were turned away from him and were actually looking where their group was seated.
"Domino … oh! I think I read about that somewhere on the internet during the summer" Hermione told them enthusiastically and the guys looked at her strangely.
"You understand Japanese?" Marik asked, awestruck.
"What did it say?" Bakura cut Marik off.
"You know how to work a computer?" Harry raised his eyebrow and Hermione gave him a deadpan look.
"One at a time" she crossed her arms over her chest and huffed. "Yes, I can work a computer Harry" she glared as he laughed nervously. "Yes, I can read and write Japanese but I cannot speak or understand it orally … a friend of mine in my old school was from Japan and she taught me great many things" Hermione uncrossed her arms and used them to support her head. "And it said that in Domino, the best holograms were put to use … Kaiba Corp?" she raised her eyebrow and Yami, Bakura and Marik laughed.
"Ah, so you heard of Kaiba?" Yami asked with an amused smile playing on his lips.
"Yes, and I've read a great lot about him too! He is a genius and is a president at such a young age! I think that he still attends high school!" Hermione looked at Yami with pleading eyes. "do you know him?"
"Yes, we were in the same class in high school…" before Yami could say anything else Hermione's curious and womanly side won over and she completely forgot that they were still in a classroom.
"YOU HAVE TO TELL ME ALL ABOUT HIM!!!!" she yelled as she grabbed Yami's shoulders and shook him violently. Yami could do nothing against such a brunt force. The classroom became dead silent.
"Ms. Granger?" Moody's magical eye fixed on her red face.
"I-I am sorry sir… I … this will never happen again!" she was red to her toes.
"You said the same thing 10 minutes ago." Moody shook his head. "You and Mr. Motou will wait for me outside" he ordered and pointed to the door.
"You are kicking us out?" Yami blinked.
"Precisely" Moody smirked. However, to his astonishment, Yami smiled.
"Great! Then I can tell you all about Kaiba! He is a good friend of mine and maybe I can even arrange a meeting… Better than sitting here, listening to this dork drawn on and on" Yami said it loud and clear as pulled Hermione along. Shutting the door with a satisfying bang, he turned to a stunned girl. "Are you ok?"
"This is the first time I was kicked out …" her eyes were wide.
"Don't worry, me and Kaiba were sent to the principle 3 times every day because we would start a fight in the middle of classes on regular basis" Yami smiled as she raised her eyebrows in shock. "and then Marik and Bakura would come and join us" Yami laughed and waved off her perplexed expression.
"But … I thought Mr. Kaiba was a responsible businessman…" Hermione trailed off.
"And he plays the same game as we play" Yami told her and then added. "Don't think so highly of him, he is a normal kid … just has a shell around him. You should see him with his brother! He turns into the softest marshmallow in the world! He can't even say no to that kid!" Yami laughed and soon, Hermione joined him.
"To be honest, he has been my idol…" Hermione blushed deeply as Yami stared at her in shock.
"What?"
"Well, I heard of him right before I started Hogwarts. I heard that he was a genius and that he knew more than an aged man at 14! That motivated me to study so hard in this school …" she looked at Yami calculatingly. "Promise not to tell anyone?"
"Promise" Yami smiled as she leaned over to whisper into his ear.
"I was a very bad student before I came to Hogwarts" Hermione pulled away and scratched the back of her head.
"How bad?" Yami's eyes were wide. This girl? A bad student? No way!
"Very bad! My parents would get a phone call from the principal every day …" Hermione trailed off as she looked at the floor, too embarrassed to look at Yami.
"Oh, so you are not who I thought you were at first …" Yami looked her over again. She was your normal prep, or that was the image that she created. Could it be that Bakura was correct from the start?
Flashback
"Don't start playing with her, she is too innocent" Yami leaned against one of the chairs in the kitchen.
"A devil having an angel's disguise" Bakura sneered back. "You are a pharaoh. I thought you were supposed to see through such things"
"But … how can she?" Yami was perplexed. He took this small conversation as yet another one of Bakura's pointless talks about wizards and their weirdness.
"Look into her eyes" a small smiled formed on Bakura's lips. "And you will see the fire that burns in them"
"I will, I will" Yami shook his head, dismissing the topic.
End Flashback.
"Show me your face" Yami suddenly said, shocking Hermione to no end.
"Huh?" she shot back intelligently.
"I want to see your face" Yami repeated. "Look into my eyes" he instructed her. Hermione, still confused, looked into his ruby eyes and practically felt her entire soul being ripped out of her body and being laid right in front of him. However, it ended all too quickly when the door to their DAA classroom was banged wide open and through came a very pissed and psyched Bakura in his maniac mode. Turning around, he smashed the door shut, glaring at the offensive piece of wood, trying to resist the urge to send it to shadow realm.
"Yami – come with me" he snapped, his eyes glowing red around the edges. "Hermione – stay" with that, he swiftly turned around and stormed down the hall, robes swishing as he went, making Hermione tremble slightly as the lights deemed and the portraits fled all around. She had never seen this Bakura before. Sure, she saw a maniac Bakura, but a kind maniac. Now, now she saw someone that one could only see in a horror movie. What could possibly have happened? Looking at Yami, she voiced her curiosity silently with a raised eyebrow. Yami shrugged his shoulders and followed his friend, leaving Hermione alone with her thoughts and unanswered questions. Peeking into the classroom, her eyes fell onto a terrible sight. Moody was sprawled on the floor, unconscious, his magical eye out of its socket, rolling around the floor as blood streamed down Moody's obviously smashed lip and his visibly broken nose or what was left of it. The student body, well, most of them, were hiding behind their books, desks and whatnot while Marik sat in the same spot as earlier, his head in his hands and Harry was poking Moody with his wand, wondering if he was still alive. Stepping away from the door, Hermione sank down against the opposite wall, question after question popping up in her mind. It was then that Ron suddenly popped out of the classroom.
"You ok?" he asked her as he crouched down next to her.
"Could be better" she replied in monotone. She didn't really feel like talking to him, not after all that he had done …
"Wanna go for a walk?" he tried again.
"What for?" she replied dully while still staring at the ceiling.
"I'll tell you want happened" Ron suggested and Hermione's attention was his for the taking.
"Fine" she was more enthusiastic now. What she didn't know was that she was walking straight into a trap…
(Lilo: Yami's real name is Atemu, Atem or wutnot. ^_^ anyways, for the purposes of this fict, his name will be Atemu, k? cuz it is longer , if u get my drift! Lol! I am listening to the latest Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh opening! Love it! Especially my Kura-chan! *hugs him* Kura = Bakura! Lol! He is so cute! And he has PURPLE, I mean, PURPLE eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O_0? That is new to me … I thought his eyes were brown . the opening made me want to download the eps again! Cuz I kinda got bored of that two-eyed freak, u know? Wuts-his-name, I forgot -_- but he had two different eyes … ya, that dude … if u have no idea wut I am talking about, download kazaa lite and download the eps! ^___^ lol! OooHhh, and for those who love shounan-ai, check out Gravitation. Trust me, you won't be sorry! I like it … heehee ^_^ well, ya, that's all I gotta say … and thankz for ur reviews! …What will happen to Hermione? What did Moody do to piss off Bakura? And just WHAT did Hermione tell Harry to wake him up??????? *evil smirk* next chapter!
Marikue: she is a happy puppy. Make her happier and R&R … also check out her devart account! ^_______^)